Adjective for "gotta go (to the bathroom)"?
crazyenglish
urinate" ? When people want to go to the bathroom, they always say,
"I gotta go." There has gotta a word for it.
If there is none, may I propose "bladdery," "urine-y," "pissy," etc. ?
Berkeley Brett
my vein."
But I don't think that one is likely for inclusion in Fowler's Modern
English Usage....
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R H Draney
>
>I remember a kid in high school who used to proclaim, "I gotta drain
>my vein."
>
>But I don't think that one is likely for inclusion in Fowler's Modern
>English Usage....
I use "empty the ballast tank"....r
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Peter Moylan
> Berkeley Brett filted:
>> I remember a kid in high school who used to proclaim, "I gotta drain
>> my vein."
>>
>> But I don't think that one is likely for inclusion in Fowler's Modern
>> English Usage....
>
> I use "empty the ballast tank"....r
>
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Frank ess
Peter Moylan wrote:
> R H Draney wrote:
>> Berkeley Brett filted:
>>> I remember a kid in high school who used to proclaim, "I gotta
>>> drain my vein."
>>>
>>> But I don't think that one is likely for inclusion in Fowler's
>>> Modern English Usage....
>>
>> I use "empty the ballast tank"....r
>>
> Shake hands with the unemployed.
Bleed my lizard.
franzi
> Is there a one-word adjective that means "having the urge to
> urinate" ? When people want to go to the bathroom, they always say,
> "I gotta go." There has gotta a word for it.
Bursting.
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franzi
Nick Spalding
on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:22:45 -0700:
"Shed a tear for Nelson" is an RN one that my pa used to use.
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Dr Peter Young
> R H Draney wrote:
>> Berkeley Brett filted:
>>> I remember a kid in high school who used to proclaim, "I gotta drain
>>> my vein."
>>>
>>> But I don't think that one is likely for inclusion in Fowler's Modern
>>> English Usage....
>>
>> I use "empty the ballast tank"....r
>>
> Shake hands with the unemployed.
Shake hands with my wife's best friend.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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Peter Duncanson (BrE)
wrote:
>On 19 Mar 2010 Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp@retep> wrote:
>
>> R H Draney wrote:
>>> Berkeley Brett filted:
>>>> I remember a kid in high school who used to proclaim, "I gotta drain
>>>> my vein."
>>>>
>>>> But I don't think that one is likely for inclusion in Fowler's Modern
>>>> English Usage....
>>>
>>> I use "empty the ballast tank"....r
>>>
>> Shake hands with the unemployed.
>
>Shake hands with my wife's best friend.
>
This threadlet has drifted from the original question about an adjective
for "gotta go (to the bathroom)" or, as the Dictionary of Slang of the
UK puts it, "desperately needing to urinate".
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm
Franzi has suggested "bursting". I have also heard "busting" which was
short for "busting for a pee". "Bursting" is the more literal. I assume
"busting" is a variation of it.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
CDB
>
On the other topic, I once read the account of a Dutchman, I think it
might have been Robert van Gulik, the author of the Judge Dee
mysteries, of a formal dinner he attended with a group of proper
Englishmen. At a late stage, one of the p E. rose, declaring that he
had to "pump ship". Perhaps the ladies had already withdrawn; I don't
recall.
>
"How delightful," the Dutchman thought, "These English are not nearly
as stuffy as I had expected," and rose in his turn, announcing that he
had to pump shit. The rest of the evening was stuffier than he had
expected.
Frank ess
My eyeballs are floating.
bert
The gerund "needing" was the standard Glasgow
vernacular used by 5-to-10-year-olds, c.1950.
e.g. "Mum, I'm needing."
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Pakku
A long time back when I was in college in India we used to say "feel
leaky". Presumably, from "taking a leak". But if I heard it now it
would sound very strange.
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